Patents by Inventor Prashant ASTHANA

Prashant ASTHANA has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9992357
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide methods and systems for the authentication of a print request. As an example, an email service associated with an enterprise network may receive an electronic message having a destination address indicative of a request to print data included in the message, wherein the destination address may have a domain name associated with the enterprise network. The email service may access an authentication service associated with the enterprise network to determine whether a sender address of the electronic message is a valid address to submit print jobs. Upon determining the sender address is a valid address, the email service may forward the electronic message to a cloud print service to prepare the print job comprising the data included in the message for printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Somnath Bhattacharya
  • Patent number: 9916464
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to replacement text for textual content to be printed. Examples include a covert version of a document including textual content to be printed, the covert version including replacement text having, for each character of a plurality of first characters of the textual content, a corresponding second character having a different semantic meaning than the first character. The covert version also includes an encrypted representation of the textual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Vipul Garg
  • Publication number: 20180052642
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to generating a print format version with an overlaid machine-readable link. As an example, a set of machine-readable links assigned to a user account from a remote repository is obtained. In response to a print command associated with the user account, one machine-readable link from amongst the set of the machine-readable links is selected and applied onto a portion of the digital document. Thereafter, a print format version of the digital document along with the machine-readable link is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Rajesh Bhatia, Bharani Nunna, Sekhar Sirigiri, Jeniki Pradeep Kumar
  • Publication number: 20170345119
    Abstract: An example implementation includes an apparatus including a processor to divide a digital image into a grid including a first grid region and a second grid region. The processor is also to generate a first grid-based watermark using shared watermark information and a first set of grid coordinates associated with the first grid region. The processor is further to generate a second grid-based watermark using the shared watermark information and a second set of grid coordinates associated with the second grid region. The processor is further to embed the first grid-based watermark into a first region of the digital image corresponding to the first grid region and to embed the second grid-based watermark into a second region of the digital image corresponding to the second grid region. The processor is further to generate a machine-readable digital image including the embedded first grid-based watermark and the embedded second grid-based watermark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Prashant ASTHANA, Rajesh BHATIA, Baharani NUNNA
  • Patent number: 9760818
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to recognizing embedded information from images. In this manner, the embodiments disclosed herein enable recognition of a first barcode from a first image and a first machine-readable watermark based on the first barcode. The first barcode may be decoded to obtain a first group identifier. The first machine-readable watermark may also be decoded. A first payload associated with the first machine-readable watermark may be accessed based on the first group identifier and a first reusable watermark identifier of the first machine-readable watermark.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Adarsh Thimmappa
  • Publication number: 20170168998
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to replacement text for textual content to be printed. Examples include a covert version of a document including textual content to be printed, the covert version including replacement text having, for each character of a plurality of first characters of the textual content, a corresponding second character having a different semantic meaning than the first character. The covert version also includes an encrypted representation of the textual content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Vipul Garg
  • Publication number: 20170046605
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to recognizing embedded information from images. In this manner, the embodiments disclosed herein enable recognition of a first barcode from a first image and a first machine-readable watermark based on the first barcode. The first barcode may be decoded to obtain a first group identifier. The first machine-readable watermark may also be decoded. A first payload associated with the first machine-readable watermark may be accessed based on the first group identifier and a first reusable watermark identifier of the first machine-readable watermark.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Adarsh Thimmappa
  • Publication number: 20170041494
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein relate to providing access to digital content using a machine-readable link. As an example, an annotation comprising digital content, for a portion of a digital content, is identified in response to a print request. Based on the annotations, a machine-readable link associated with the digital content is generated. Subsequently, a printable format version of the digital document comprising the machine-readable link, and excluding the annotation is obtained wherein the machine-readable link is readable by a computing device to obtain access to the digital content over a communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Lenin Fernandes, Kumaravel Ganesan, Prashant Asthana
  • Publication number: 20160344878
    Abstract: Examples disclosed herein provide methods and systems for the authentication of a print request. As an example, an email service associated with an enterprise network may receive an electronic message having a destination address indicative of a request to print data included in the message, wherein the destination address may have a domain name associated with the enterprise network. The email service may access an authentication service associated with the enterprise network to determine whether a sender address of the electronic message is a valid address to submit print jobs. Upon determining the sender address is a valid address, the email service may forward the electronic message to a cloud print service to prepare the print job comprising the data included in the message for printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Prashant Asthana, Somnath Bhattacharya
  • Patent number: 9483218
    Abstract: Systems and methods for printing a document over a network are described herein. In one implementation, a method for network printing comprises receiving a request from a node to connect to a parent node and determining whether a number of child nodes of the parent node has reached a predefined threshold number. The method further comprises transmitting a connection acknowledgement message to the node on determining the number of child nodes not to have reached the predefined threshold number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Prashant Asthana
  • Publication number: 20160054961
    Abstract: Systems and methods for printing a document over a network are described herein. In one implementation, a method for network printing comprises receiving a request from a node to connect to a parent node and determining whether a number of child nodes of the parent node has reached a predefined threshold number. The method further comprises transmitting a connection acknowledgement message to the node on determining the number of child nodes not to have reached the predefined threshold number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2013
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Prashant ASTHANA
  • Patent number: 9134937
    Abstract: A system for secure printing is disclosed herein. An example of the system includes a client that initiates a print request, creates an identifier, transmits the print request and identifier, and renders print data. The system also includes a cloud-connected printer and a server to which the cloud-connected printer is coupled that receives the transmitted print request and identifier, verifies the availability of the cloud-connected printer, transfers the identifier to the available cloud-connected printer, and establishes a secure connection between the available cloud connected printer and the client. Other details of the system are disclosed herein, as are other examples of the system. Examples of a method for secure printing and a non-volatile storage medium are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Prashant Asthana
  • Publication number: 20140293324
    Abstract: A system for secure printing is disclosed herein. An example of the system includes a client that initiates a print request, creates an identifier, transmits the print request and identifier, and renders print data. The system also includes a cloud-connected printer and a server to which the cloud-connected printer is coupled that receives the transmitted print request and identifier, verifies the availability of the cloud-connected printer, transfers the identifier to the available cloud-connected printer, and establishes a secure connection between the available cloud connected printer and the client. Other details of the system are disclosed herein, as are other examples of the system. Examples of a method for secure printing and a non-volatile storage medium are also disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Prashant ASTHANA